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>> it was used against, it was used against pretty much anyone it was challenging the status quo. it was used against striking workers. eight was used against african-americans and started to migrate from the brill south to the north and it was effective in marginalizing and silencing them. >> christopher capozzola, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen-- "uncle sam wants you" world war i and the making of the modern american citizen. >> thank you. >> look at the life and career of an arkansas circuit court judge who once opposed the ruling of brown the mac board of education and then champion civil-rights. judge richard arnold has been called the best judge to never set on the supreme court. the bill clinton presidential library in lula, arkansas is the hosted this event. it is about an
>> it was used against, it was used against pretty much anyone it was challenging the status quo. it was used against striking workers. eight was used against african-americans and started to migrate from the brill south to the north and it was effective in marginalizing and silencing them. >> christopher capozzola, world war i and the making of the modern american citizen-- "uncle sam wants you" world war i and the making of the modern american citizen. >> thank...
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our dragoons and lent us speed and mobility, they let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy's lines, and thanks to our cars when we lost the cities, we were not forced to surrender, we were able to retreat. but our poor cars paid the price and they were flashing swords, beaten into dull ploughshares. cars became appliances. or worse than appliances, i mean, nobody is ticked off at the dreier or the dishwasher. you know much less at the fridge. i mean, we all recognize these as labor-saving devices. the car on the other hand, seems to create labor. we hold the car responsible for all of the dreary errands to which it needs to be steered. we're thinking, hell a golf cart is more fun, and you can ride around in a golf cart with a six pack, saved from the breathize,and chasing canada geese on the fair ways and swinging at the goef,with a nine iron, you know, and we lost our love for cars and we forgot our debt to cars. and meanwhile, the pointy-headed busy bodies have been exacting their revenge and we escaped the poke of their nose once when we lived downtown but we will not be able to
our dragoons and lent us speed and mobility, they let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy's lines, and thanks to our cars when we lost the cities, we were not forced to surrender, we were able to retreat. but our poor cars paid the price and they were flashing swords, beaten into dull ploughshares. cars became appliances. or worse than appliances, i mean, nobody is ticked off at the dreier or the dishwasher. you know much less at the fridge. i mean, we all recognize these as labor-saving...
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them to amend the books used ellen, how many have been recovered? >> the roll recover the day he was arrested. as with the chapter is about. it was quite remarkable about stephen blumberg which is what made him very interesting to me as a writer is a that not just that he stole the books. there have been a lot of but thieves and document the use and manuscript fees and matthew is an assembly very worth while to study and writing about, but was of particularly interest about stephen blumberg is that he stole the books to keep them because you love them. he built a collection of these 25,000 books and kept them in this house in ottumwa, iowa. he did this over 20 years. if the day he was arrested, 95 percent of the books that he had stolen were never known to be missing and of the day he was arrested so it became a very interesting story for me. it was to lead a study in bibliomania, an examination of a book collector who literally falls off the cliff and this is kind of where i read over here -- my reading chair. these are the books i am working with
them to amend the books used ellen, how many have been recovered? >> the roll recover the day he was arrested. as with the chapter is about. it was quite remarkable about stephen blumberg which is what made him very interesting to me as a writer is a that not just that he stole the books. there have been a lot of but thieves and document the use and manuscript fees and matthew is an assembly very worth while to study and writing about, but was of particularly interest about stephen...
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most of us have preconceived notion of what the taliban are like. we think of them as guys who are in desperate need of a pedicure or at least a bath, living in caves in afghanistan. we think of them as illiterate, fanatical, gun-toting, basically backwards and illiterate people. what i would look -- like to put forward to you tonight who have come out to hear me speak, i would like to look forward to another model that i think is useful. i am not suggesting that malo mark has developed a taste for the issue no or that osama bin laden has started drinking qian the or that they are about to open a new wing of the bottom being, but what i have done over the last five years is to investigate the taliban's operations on ground level. when you start doing that, they start looking more like this. this has to do with the way that they earn money. one of the mistakes the western governments have made in operations in afghanistan is to underestimate them as religious fanatics who live in caves. we need to start looking at the enormous economic forces that ar
most of us have preconceived notion of what the taliban are like. we think of them as guys who are in desperate need of a pedicure or at least a bath, living in caves in afghanistan. we think of them as illiterate, fanatical, gun-toting, basically backwards and illiterate people. what i would look -- like to put forward to you tonight who have come out to hear me speak, i would like to look forward to another model that i think is useful. i am not suggesting that malo mark has developed a taste...
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now i use that vision of culture and describe it using modern computer term following as a kind of read-write culture. it's a culture where people read, consume, but they also feel empowered, entitled to write, to create in response to what they consume and i contrasted that vision of culture to the opposite in computer terminology, what we could call a read only culture, a culture where what people do is just simply consume. where they don't feel entitled or empowered to take what they consume and do anything with it. they feel like their job is to be a couch potato, to sit there and just see or listen and do nothing more. and sousa's fear was that's who we would become. now, of course, he was right, that's who we did become, the history of the 20th century is extraordinary history of concentration of the creativity of our culture, and never before in the history of human culture had its production become has concentrated, never bore before as professionalized, never before had the participation of ordinary people in the creation and spreading of culture been as effectively displace and disp
now i use that vision of culture and describe it using modern computer term following as a kind of read-write culture. it's a culture where people read, consume, but they also feel empowered, entitled to write, to create in response to what they consume and i contrasted that vision of culture to the opposite in computer terminology, what we could call a read only culture, a culture where what people do is just simply consume. where they don't feel entitled or empowered to take what they consume...
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i wonder if you could tell us the advantages and disadvantages of that struggle? >> that is too hard, a wrap up moment. i found it immensely instructive and fruitful to meditate on it but in a concrete way, not sitting in my office thinking i wonder what is the difference? struggle with it, it relates to the research question. in my period, if i do early modern work, the research, when you get to the end of the research is clear because you have read everything, if you want to study the salem witchcraft trials, as a historian, if you read everything, you still don't know what the hell happened. you need to come up with an explanation. i had an interesting experience, i was writing a piece for the new yorker on the children's book stuart little. the first time i had done a piece of research in the modern period, working with people who wrote a lot, e.b. white and katharine white and i thought what was stuart little suppressed? i would love to come -- i thought it would be wide to the salem girls think they saw which is, it was a question that had an answer in the a
i wonder if you could tell us the advantages and disadvantages of that struggle? >> that is too hard, a wrap up moment. i found it immensely instructive and fruitful to meditate on it but in a concrete way, not sitting in my office thinking i wonder what is the difference? struggle with it, it relates to the research question. in my period, if i do early modern work, the research, when you get to the end of the research is clear because you have read everything, if you want to study the...
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they're using live prisoners as practice. and--and y--as you can see,this--the--the gentle--the--the chinese who's been blindfolded--i mean, he's--he's been stabbed repeatedly, and this is happening even after he's dead. c-span: and you say that's just practice? >> guest: it's just practice. c-span: below that, this photograph. >> guest: this is a photograph of several japan--several chinese victims being buried alive as japanese soldiers watch. c-span: and you also tell a story in there where they would bury some chinese victims up to their heads and then have german shepherds or. >> guest: tear them apart. c-span: tear them apart. >> guest: that's true. c-span: do you have any pictures of that? >> guest: no, thank god. c-span: how--now how did you find that out? >> guest: well, that--that was--that came out of ar--you know,archival documents and it also came out of descriptions which i found in china. i'm telling you, literally i had so many facts on these atrocities i--i had to--i had to use a computer database for them in
they're using live prisoners as practice. and--and y--as you can see,this--the--the gentle--the--the chinese who's been blindfolded--i mean, he's--he's been stabbed repeatedly, and this is happening even after he's dead. c-span: and you say that's just practice? >> guest: it's just practice. c-span: below that, this photograph. >> guest: this is a photograph of several japan--several chinese victims being buried alive as japanese soldiers watch. c-span: and you also tell a story in...
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this one guy took us through. one of the questions we asked was what about your trial, what about your people, were they guilty? the rosenbergs, were they guilty? and the guys said he was and she wasn't. i thought that was rather interesting that he said anything at all. i was wondering whether you made any effort to get opinions from that country. >> great question. you helped me. one of your friends was working for john kerry. >> oh, yes. >> i lived in massachusetts, i am a red sox fan. old brooklyn dodgers fan just like my parents, yankee-hater which is why i was married in boston. ivy meeropol has me on the film angrily watching -- >> a moment of levity. >> we went to senator john kerry and asked that the files of the soviet secret service whenever they were called, this was after the soviet union had dissolved, it was now the russian federation and we had john kerry send a letter, we actually thought we might be able to do it because the general had done something similar in another case, he examine their fil
this one guy took us through. one of the questions we asked was what about your trial, what about your people, were they guilty? the rosenbergs, were they guilty? and the guys said he was and she wasn't. i thought that was rather interesting that he said anything at all. i was wondering whether you made any effort to get opinions from that country. >> great question. you helped me. one of your friends was working for john kerry. >> oh, yes. >> i lived in massachusetts, i am a...
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i used to live in japan. i'm used to this very civil kind of thing. nobody had enough to drink to get into belly talk aspects of the thing. i had really taken it back. and i had no idea what a n.a.p. clause is but when i get back to redman, i'll find out. i find out bill gates drafted this, but nobody is going to change it and say some new guy arriveed here and doesn't like it and he used to work for i.b.m.. but the other problem was there were no replacement vehicle if you will. i kind of come to the conclusion that microsoft was now filing for thousands of things a year and we were enforcing on the industry and that didn't quite look right. a japanese company wouldn't sue, nobody could sue anybody. by the way, that's not how they are. it looks like somebody was denying them to do the rights what they thought they aught to have the rights tad. the reaction from bill was, okay, when are you going to replace it with. well, the answer to that had to be since we have intellectual portfolio, we're going to replace with it licensing stuff with other compan
i used to live in japan. i'm used to this very civil kind of thing. nobody had enough to drink to get into belly talk aspects of the thing. i had really taken it back. and i had no idea what a n.a.p. clause is but when i get back to redman, i'll find out. i find out bill gates drafted this, but nobody is going to change it and say some new guy arriveed here and doesn't like it and he used to work for i.b.m.. but the other problem was there were no replacement vehicle if you will. i kind of come...